Alberto Demichelis

Author of Squirrel the programming language, game developer and such

[Alberto Demichelis @squirrellang]

@Jonathan_Blow Win 11 was the last straw. My new workstation is Linux (Pop!_OS). I’m hoping rad debugger will run well on Linux. Other than a good debugger so far I don’t miss windows. I keep my old windows workstation only for testing.

[Alberto Demichelis @squirrellang]

@V1TALISED I have no plan for that, the ancient forum sw was a nightmare to maintain. I have the data, would be quite a task to covert it to some other platform (I did it once from phpBB to YAF). Any suggestion?

[Alberto Demichelis @squirrellang]

@k_sugimoto I’m not sure what’s the problem with PayPal. I moved to Italy, maybe they don’t support donation to private individuals. Thank you anyway. The website was just a screwup of the that cleared the dns record.

[Alberto Demichelis @squirrellang]

@lefticus Yes, in squirrel’s interpreter they cost about 30% in performance. I never shipped a project with exceptions on in 25 years as a c++ programmer. That also eliminates the standard library for most of the projects.

[Alberto Demichelis @squirrellang]

@Atrix256 I written a utility that generates a C file that declares a global char[] filled with the file content. And is part of a pre process step of my build.

[Alberto Demichelis @squirrellang]

@lefticus For our game engine I use @squirrellang for everything but heavy lifting. Even the rendering pipeline is scripted.

[Alberto Demichelis @squirrellang]

@thrillinguser I’m working on it. Thank you.

[Alberto Demichelis @squirrellang]

@lowerthirdgames @rfleury My last engine for an mmo rpg is more than half a million lines but well organized in libraries with minimal cross module linking. Almost no templates. It compiles in less than a minute on a 3700x. Tools are in c#. For game code we use scripting.

[Alberto Demichelis @squirrellang]

@richgel999 It is the only way imho

[Alberto Demichelis @squirrellang]

@nixcraft I remember, my high school was a Borland only shop.

[Alberto Demichelis @squirrellang]

I’m officially impressed with ChatGPT

[Alberto Demichelis @squirrellang]

@m_ou_se I’d like a protocol like Microsoft COM to allow some form of dynamic linking of plugin components.

[Alberto Demichelis @squirrellang]

@timClicks We did in our last project for data mining and some networking infrastructure. I plan for more things the new one too. We also use c++, c# and squirrel. No language is good for everything.

[Alberto Demichelis @squirrellang]

@erin_catto You can do much more with rust macros than what you can do with a reflection system. Look at what libraries like “serde” do.

[Alberto Demichelis @squirrellang]

@MarcoLizza @eigenbom Development has not stopped. I’m simply not so keen to add features for the just for the sake of it.

[Work Chronicles @_workchronicles]

Adding more people to a project

[Alberto Demichelis @squirrellang]

@kelvinshadewing What is midi? I only know it as a “musical instrument digital interface”

[Alberto Demichelis @squirrellang]

@pcwalton A COM like ABI for @rustlang is my dream.

[Alberto Demichelis @squirrellang]

Lol

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